Discover the Weekend League Club With 1,800 Premier League Matches

What can you boost a excellent experienced side that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of former pro players that have performed at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you pursue further silverware.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their active roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

The roster this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This elite roster also contains 222 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have won fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a